Legal Research Intern
The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) is a private, nonprofit organization, established 20 years ago. We work to make the world safer for children by eradicating child abduction, sexual abuse, and exploitation so that no child stands alone. We advocate, innovate, train, and collaborate to protect the world’s children.
- We ADVOCATE for children around the world by proposing changes to laws, treaties, and systems based on rigorous research and the latest technology.
- We INNOVATE by partnering with leading technology companies to identify and develop new global solutions that protect children from abduction, sexual abuse, and exploitation.
- We TRAIN partners on the front lines by providing tools to professionals who interface with children to improve prevention, facilitate treatment for victims, and increase the efficacy of the identification and prosecution of people who victimize children.
- We COLLABORATE with key stakeholders by building international networks of professionals across disciplines to anticipate issues, identify gaps, and develop cross-cutting solutions.
As the workload of ICMEC continues to grow and resources are stretched, the contributions of interns are extremely important. ICMEC interns who share the same belief in our goals help to make the success stories happen. ICMEC offers full‐ and part‐time internships each academic semester. Successful applicants will be highly motivated, detail-oriented, independent students with a passion for public interest work.
The Legal Research Intern will support the Sr. Vice President of Research & Operations and the Research Coordinator of The Koons Family Institute on International Law & Policy, the organization's research arm, by writing, editing, and conducting substantive legal and public policy research for a variety of publications, reports, white papers, and other projects. Interns may focus on topics such as child sexual abuse material, online grooming, missing children, child sex trafficking, child sexual abuse and exploitation, sextortion, and revenge pornography, and other related topics. Interns also may utilize foreign language skills and regional areas of expertise.
What are the requirements to intern at ICMEC?
Legal Research Interns:
- Be available to work 12 to 15 weeks, at least 15 hours per week (20+ hours preferred) during the Fall or Spring semesters;
- Undergo initial and periodic background checks; and
- Have completed undergraduate studies (working toward a Master’s or Juris Doctorate degree strongly preferred). We will consider students in their sophomore, junior, or senior year of undergraduate studies with relevant experience.
*In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, internships will be completed remotely, but with the possibility of limited in-person interaction in the ICMEC office in Alexandria, Virginia if conditions allow.